[IV.98] It appears something uncertain whether Portia's death was before or after her husband's. Plutarch represents it as occurring before; but Merivale follows those who place it after. "For Portia, Brutus's wife, Nicolaus the philosopher and Valerius Maximus do write, that she determining to kill herself (her parents and friends carefully looking to her to keep her from it) took hot burning coals, and cast them into her mouth, and kept her mouth so close that she choked herself. There was a letter of Brutus found, written to his friends, complaining of their negligence, that, his wife being sick, they would not help her, but suffered her to kill herself, choosing to die rather than to languish in pain."—Plutarch, Marcus Brutus.
[IV.99] Re-enter Lucius,... taper Camb | Enter Boy ... Tapers Ff.
[IV.100] [Drinks] Capell | Ff omit.
[IV.101] [Exit Lucius] Camb | Ff omit.
[IV.102] Scene V Pope.
[IV.103] Re-enter Titinius, with ... Dyce | Enter Titinius and ... Ff (after l. 162)
[IV.104] call in question: bring up for discussion. 'Question,' both noun and verb, is constantly found in Shakespeare in the sense of 'talk.' So "in question more" in Romeo and Juliet, I, i, 235.
[IV.105] Bending their expedition: directing their march. Cf. 'expedition' in this sense in Richard III, IV, iv, 136.
[IV.106] tenour Theobald | tenure Ff.
[IV.107] outlawry F4 | Outlarie F1 | Outlary F2F3.